Transitions, or “handoffs,” are vulnerable exchange points that contribute to unnecessarily high rates of health services use and health care spending (Naylor, 2011). And they expose chronically ill people to lapses in quality and safety. It is during these transitions that mistakes commonly …show more content…
The Affordable Care Act also supports transitional care services through a number of other vehicles. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Section 3021) offers an unprecedented opportunity to identify, evaluate, and disseminate innovative care delivery and payment models, including transitional care, through a $10 billion allocation for the period 2011–19 (Naylor, 2011). Under the Medicare shared savings program (Section 3022); moreover, accountable care organizations will be required to submit performance data that may address care transitions across health care settings (Naylor, 2011). And encouraging caregivers to take a more proactive role in patients’ care is another implementation to improve healthcare